The vicissitudes of being a single mother in Taiwan : a mental health concern

During the 1980s, Western cultural influences began to penetrate and influence changes in Taiwanese culture. Noticeable among the many cultural changes has been the emergence of feminism. As a consequence, women have begun to question the absolute need to marry and the plausibility of rearing children out of wedlock.A descriptive phenomenological approach to inquiry informed the approach to this study. Colaizzi's (1978) seven-step approach to analysis was used as a systematic framework for the explication of findings (Colaizzi 1978).